{"id":22052,"date":"2024-09-06T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/giving-kids-a-fair-chance\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:32:53","slug":"giving-kids-a-fair-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/giving-kids-a-fair-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Kids a Fair Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71wrHBctwmL._SL1500_.jpg\" class=\"wp_automatic_gallery\" \/><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">[price_with_discount]<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of [price_update_date] &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.in\/dp\/026253505X?tag=mothermarysto-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n[ad_1]<br \/>\n  A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?<\/p>\n<p>In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk of dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, crime, and a lifetime of low-wage work. This is bad for all those born into disadvantage and bad for American society.<\/p>\n<p>Current social and education policies directed toward children focus on improving cognition, yet success in life requires more than smarts. Heckman calls for a refocus of social policy toward early childhood interventions designed to enhance both cognitive abilities and such non-cognitive skills as confidence and perseverance. This new focus on preschool intervention would emphasize improving the early environments of disadvantaged children and increasing the quality of parenting while respecting the primacy of the family and America&#8217;s cultural diversity. <\/p>\n<p>Heckman shows that acting early has much greater positive economic and social impact than later interventions\u2014which range from reduced pupil-teacher ratios to adult literacy programs to expenditures on police\u2014that draw the most attention in the public policy debate. At a time when state and local budgets for early interventions are being cut, Heckman issues an urgent call for action and offers some practical steps for how to design and pay for new programs.<\/p>\n<p>The debate that follows delves deeply into some of the most fraught questions of our time: the sources of inequality, the role of schools in solving social problems, and how to invest public resources most effectively. Mike Rose, Geoffrey Canada, Charles Murray, Carol Dweck, Annette Lareau, and other prominent experts participate.<\/p>\n<p> Publisher                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Mit Pr; Reprint edition (8 September 2017) <br \/> Language                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 English <br \/> Paperback                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 137 pages <br \/> ISBN-10                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 026253505X <br \/> ISBN-13                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 978-0262535052 <br \/> Reading age                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 18 years and up <br \/> Item Weight                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 136 g <br \/> Dimensions                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 11.43 x 0.94 x 17.78 cm <br \/> Country of Origin                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 India <\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] &#8211; Details) [ad_1] A top economist weighs in on one of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71wrHBctwmL._SL1500_.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[140],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-22052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-and-stationery-products","tag-book-fair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71wrHBctwmL._SL1500_.jpg?w=979&resize=979,1500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goglobalshopping.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}